The William Maul Measey Professorship of Medicine

The Professorship was established in 1970 through gifts from the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation in honor of William Maul Measey (1875–1967), an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1898.

William Maul Measey, a distinguished corporate attorney in Philadelphia, created the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation in 1958 to honor the memory of his parents. Since the Foundation supports several colleges, universities, schools of medicine, and hospitals in the Philadelphia area, the Measey name has become synonymous with the furtherance of medical education in the region.

Current Chairholder
Steven M. Albelda, MD

Steven M. Albelda, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a BA in Chemistry from Williams College and an MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary Disease at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Dr. Albelda was boarded in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. Dr. Albelda is the former Vice Chief of the Pulmonary Division, Director of the Thoracic Oncology Research Laboratory, and a Co-Director of the Translational Center of Excellence for Lung Cancer at Penn.

Dr. Albelda’s research goal is to develop novel approaches to the treatment of lung cancer and mesothelioma, with special emphasis on gene and immunotherapy. He has led an NCI-funded Program Project that studied gene therapy and chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) trials for mesothelioma and lung cancer for the past 28 years. The major areas of recent interest in the lab have been augmentation of anti-tumor immune effects, the tumor microenvironment, mechanisms of T cell dysfunction, and adoptive T cell transfer with an increasing focus on lung cancer.

Previous Chairholders

• Alfred P. Fishman, MD 1970–1989